(this post was contributed by Val Lovicz, Principal Program Manager on the MDS Team) With the November CTP release available, many have been asking for basic information and examples for programming the Web services API. While MDS conceptual content and...

(this post was contributed by Nick Nieslanik, Senior Software Engineer on the MDS team). Many production environments will want to configure Master Data Services (MDS) in a load-balanced Web Farm for scalability and performance reasons. This blog entry...

(this post was contributed by Brian Barnett, Senior Software Engineer on the MDS Team) In Part 1 you made the necessary model changes. In this post we will make the security changes necessary to meet the requirements of our workflow scenario. Step 6:...

(this post was contributed by Brian Barnett, Senior Software Engineer on the MDS Team) While using Bing Maps last night to look for directions I thought of a way to use MDS business rules to create a Bing Map URL link attribute. This may sound like merely...

(this post was contributed by Val Lovicz, Principal Program Manager on the MDS Team) Once you’ve installed Master Data Services (MDS), you may find the trace logging feature useful for error diagnostics and support requests as well as monitoring...

(this post was contributed by Brian Barnett, Senior Software Engineer on the MDS Team) In Part 1 you made the necessary model changes. In Part 2 you made the security changes to give the new groups the required security access and permissions . In this...

(this post was contributed by Brian Barnett, Senior Software Engineer on the MDS Team) Up until this point we have been laying the foundation for enabling the human workflow. Along the way ( Part 1 , Part 2 , and Part 3 ) you’ve been exposed to other...

(this post was contributed by Suzanne Selhorn, Technical Writer on the MDS Team)
This post provides some basic information about the staging process. It introduces you to the workflow required to import data, provides you with some examples, and gives...

(this post was contributed by Brent McBride, Senior Software Engineer on the MDS team). The below example shows how to create a new model and add new entities in the same call to the MetadataCreate API operation: Example 1: Add a model and its entities...

(this post was contributed by Brian Barnett, Senior Software Engineer on the MDS team) This post is a first in a series that will explore what you can do with SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services (MDS) business rules. It will introduce business rule...